1. Alignment of the CLAS12 central hybrid tracker with a Kalman Filter
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S.J. Paul, A. Peck, M. Arratia, Y. Gotra, V. Ziegler, R. De Vita, F. Bossù, M. Defurne, H. Atac, C. Ayerbe Gayoso, L. Baashen, N.A. Baltzell, L. Barion, M. Bashkanov, M. Battaglieri, I. Bedlinskiy, B. Benkel, F. Benmokhtar, A. Bianconi, L. Biondo, A.S. Biselli, M. Bondi, S. Boiarinov, K.-Th. Brinkmann, W.J. Briscoe, W.K. Brooks, D. Bulumulla, V.D. Burkert, R. Capobianco, D.S. Carman, J.C. Carvajal, P. Chatagnon, V. Chesnokov, T. Chetry, G. Ciullo, P.L. Cole, G. Costantini, A. D’Angelo, N. Dashyan, A. Deur, S. Diehl, C. Djalali, R. Dupre, A. El Alaoui, L. El Fassi, L. Elouadrhiri, A. Filippi, K. Gates, G. Gavalian, Y. Ghandilyan, G.P. Gilfoyle, A.A. Golubenko, G. Gosta, R.W. Gothe, K. Griffioen, M. Guidal, H. Hakobyan, M. Hattawy, F. Hauenstein, T.B. Hayward, D. Heddle, A. Hobart, M. Holtrop, Y. Ilieva, D.G. Ireland, E.L. Isupov, H.S. Jo, R. Johnston, K. Joo, D. Keller, M. Khachatryan, A. Khanal, A. Kim, W. Kim, V. Klimenko, A. Kripko, L. Lanza, M. Leali, P. Lenisa, X. Li, I.J.D. MacGregor, D. Marchand, L. Marsicano, V. Mascagna, B. McKinnon, C. McLauchlin, S. Migliorati, T. Mineeva, M. Mirazita, V. Mokeev, C. Munoz Camacho, P. Nadel-Turonski, P. Naidoo, K. Neupane, D. Nguyen, S. Niccolai, M. Nicol, G. Niculescu, M. Osipenko, P. Pandey, M. Paolone, R. Paremuzyan, N. Pilleux, O. Pogorelko, M. Pokhrel, J. Poudel, J.W. Price, Y. Prok, T. Reed, M. Ripani, J. Ritman, F. Sabatié, S. Schadmand, A. Schmidt, E.V. Shirokov, U. Shrestha, P. Simmerling, D. Sokhan, N. Sparveris, M. Spreafico, I.I. Strakovsky, S. Strauch, J.A. Tan, R. Tyson, M. Ungaro, S. Vallarino, L. Venturelli, H. Voskanyan, E. Voutier, D.P. Watts, X. Wei, R. Wishart, M.H. Wood, N. Zachariou, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), and Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,data analysis method ,Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors ,FOS: Physical sciences ,[PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex] ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) ,CLAS ,[PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex] ,ddc:530 ,tracking detector ,[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det] ,Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) ,numerical calculations ,Nuclear Experiment ,Instrumentation ,Alignment ,track data analysis ,Settore FIS/04 ,Detector ,Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) ,detector: alignment ,Kalman filter ,cosmic radiation ,semiconductor detector: microstrip ,performance - Abstract
International audience; Several factors can contribute to the difficulty of aligning the sensors of tracking detectors, including a large number of modules, multiple types of detector technologies, and non-linear strip patterns on the sensors. The latter two of these three factors apply to the CLAS12 CVT, which is a hybrid detector consisting of planar silicon sensors with non-parallel strips, and cylindrical micromegas sensors with longitudinal and arc-shaped strips located within a 5 T superconducting solenoid. To align this detector, we used the Kalman Alignment Algorithm, which accounts for correlations between the alignment parameters without requiring the time-consuming inversion of large matrices. This is the first time that this algorithm has been adapted for use with hybrid technologies, non-parallel strips, and curved sensors. We present the results for the first alignment of the CLAS12 CVT using straight tracks from cosmic rays and from a target with the magnetic field turned off. After running this procedure, we achieved alignment at the level of l. 967 10μm, and the widths of the residual spectra were greatly reduced. These results attest to the flexibility of this algorithm and its applicability to future use in the CLAS12 CVT and other hybrid or curved trackers, such as those proposed for the future Electron-Ion Collider.
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- 2023